Hello, my fellow fairy friends. How are you all? I hope you're all having a lovely day. First off, can I just say how happy I am to have found 'Real Fairies' and also how grateful I am to have got this opportunity to become a member on your forum. This is such a wonderful site and it is an absolute pleasure to be here with you all.
My name is Neil and I'm a 27-year-old guy from England.
The fairies have been a big part of my life since 2002, when a friend first introduced me to them through the writings and drawings on a website she had created. I had told her about my interest in spiritual things and she told me that her website might be of interest. She explained that her website was dedicated to the 'old ways' and the fay. I asked what she meant by that, and she gave me her site address and invited me to take a look. Knowing it was all new to me, she asked if I would give her some feedback, as it would mean she could improve her site and make it more user-friendly and less intimidating to those like myself who were new to subjects that she had written about. Her website, for the most part, had lots of information on the 'old ways', and several of these pages were dedicated solely on the fay – explaining who they were, where they came from, ways to attract them to you and various tips on how to befriend them. Sadly, this website is no longer online and I have since lost contact with my old friend, but, it was at that point that I consider my own personal relationship with the fay to have begun.
Having never read anything about the fay before, the information was all very new to me, and quite honestly, hard to believe. Yet, I felt the truth of the words in my heart. I felt an instant recognition, almost as though I already knew who the fay were and they knew me. However, my mind began to question the validity of the words and I felt the doubt begin to creep in. My mind would tell me that it's all just a nice story, that it was just fantasy and for younger people. I began to think that I was too old to believe such things and that I shouldn't because I was a boy. How could I even talk about the subject of the fay without ridicule? And so began an inner battle between my heart and my mind. When I had finished reading the website, I contacted my friend again. She asked what I thought about her site. I replied that it was nice and easy to navigate around and that it looked fantastic. "And?" she asked. "What about the things I wrote about? What do you think?" I was honest with my friend – I told her that I loved the idea of the fay, but it was hard to take in. I tried to be diplomatic and said: "Maybe it's because I still have much to learn about them?" She laughed. I thought for a second I had offended her, especially since it was something she believed strongly, so I apologized. She said: "Please don't apologize. I understand. The fay is not for everyone." She went on to thank me for reviewing her site and told me that she appreciated my help and that if, at any time, I went back and had some questions about the 'old ways' and/or the fay, she would happily answer them for me. Later on that night, I began wondering if I had been too hasty and had rushed through her website too quickly, not giving the information the proper time it deserved to 'sink in'. I felt bad. I felt I had let my friend down, so I went back and read her site properly. Again, my heart was telling me the fay were real, but my mind kept doubting. However, now something had changed inside of me – suddenly I felt an overwhelming desire to search the Web and any books I could find on the fae because it was something I needed to know about. I have always been quite a sensitive person, quite emotional and a guy who is very comfortable with his feminine side, so my heart won the battle with my mind and I began my near endless search on the Internet and in various books for as much information on the fae as I could find.
And, so, here I am… 9 years later. Since that first day, I have read many books, many websites, spoken to many other fairy fans, hosted my own fairy forum and had many wonderful experiences with the fay which I will share in another post. For now, I just wanted to say hi to everyone and to give an explanation on what brought me here to sign up on the Real Fairies forum. If anyone has any questions, do please ask. I love meeting new people and I'm really easy to get on with. And if you've got this far, thank you so much for having the patience to read such a large post.
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